1. Intro to the Eclipse IDE and PHPEclipse
Presented to
KC PUG: Kansas City's PHP User Group
Eric Poe

2. What we'll cover Eclipse Workbench PHPEclipse plugin
WST (Web Standard Tools) plugin
XAMPP

3. What is Eclipse Open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
Managed by the Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
Members include IBM, Red Hat, Zend, Borland, and many others.
Runs on Linux, *nix, OSX, and Windows.
Written in Java
Plug-in framework

4. Eclipse Plugin Framework
Multiple languages in a project
PHP Eclipse
Web Standard Tools
HTML
Javascript
CSS
CDT (C/C++)
Java
Perl
Additional Services
CVS
SVN (Subversion)
Ant
SQL
Sokoban

5. PHP Eclipse Plugin Allows one to use Eclipse for PHP projects
Includes:
PHP Parser
Tidy
Debugger
Code formatter
Templates
etc.

6. Eclipse Perspectives
Perspectives show different views for different tasks.
PHP
Java
C/C++
Debug

7. PHPEclipse Perspective
Workbench
Console
Navigator
Outline
PHP Browser
Editor

8. Views: Editor Context highlighting function/class squishing
Code completion* *I've not seen this work well with PHP5 classes

9. Views: Navigator
File Hierarchy
Can contain multiple projects

10. Views: Outline
Classes
Variables
Entities

11. Views: PHP Browser Work in Progress Default - uses system browser
Can be changed to use other browser

12. Views: Console
Default shows 3 tabs
Problems
Console
Bookmarks

13. Plugin: Web Standard Tools
WST includes:
(X)HTML
XML
Javascript
CSS
Etc.

14. XAMPP Easy “AMP” on Linux, Solaris, OSX, or Windows Includes: Apache
PHP 4 & 5
MySQL
FTP server
Mail server
Etc.

15. Links of Interest Eclipse.org: http://eclipse.org/
PHP Eclipse:
Eclipse Plugin Central:
Plog4u (PHPEclipse tutorials):
Apache Friends (XAMPP):